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Dixit

Jean-Louis Roubira · Libellud · 2008

Give a clue about your surreal art card, then all players secretly submit a card they think matches your clue. If everyone or no one guesses yours, you score nothing — the perfect clue is one that only some players understand. A masterpiece of creative ambiguity.

Players

3–8

Time

30 min

Ages

Difficulty

Light

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Why you'll like it

The surreal artwork is genuinely beautiful
Encourages creative, poetic thinking
Zero gaming experience required
Works across cultures and languages
Expansions add hundreds of new art cards

How it plays

Dixit is a storytelling game with beautiful, dreamlike art cards. One player is the storyteller: they pick a card from their hand and say a word or phrase about it.

Everyone else secretly picks a card from their own hand that also matches the clue. The cards are shuffled and revealed, and players vote for the storyteller's card. The storyteller scores only if some, but not all, players guess right, so the trick is to be neither too obvious nor too vague.